Opal Reflections
Perspectives through Prose, Poetry and Photography
Category: Studio 30+
Portrait: “L’Apres-midi d’un Faune”
Surrounded, Framed in leafy green, Foraging the foliage, Startled, sensing she was not alone, Warned by wafting air of danger near, Beware! Hidden, Waiting for the frame, I spied in silent awe, Inwardly, I laughed my nervous laughter I, the unobserved observer, I, poet… Continue Reading “Portrait: “L’Apres-midi d’un Faune””
Haiku: Precarious Perch
Precarious perch Clinging; gath’ring gust is nigh, Crash – quick and lethal Written for Studio 30+ using prompt: “Quick and Lethal”
Time After Time
Images conflate, though tossed and torn, Long since forgotten, left on hooks, Wrenched away from neural nooks of memory, hanging bare, forlorn. Which rested dormant through the years, Outliving weddings, day-to-days of married bliss, They hid, obscured, through nights and years of tears, Outliving schooldays,… Continue Reading “Time After Time”
Lucid Dreams
🌲🌲🌲 He’s entering the woods as oft before, And still his heart is thumping, resolute, This path has been the backdrop to his more lucid revelations, thoughts astute. The crunch of long-dropped pine cones underfoot, Reminds him, well, that feral denizens, inhabit near, ‘neath torn-asunder… Continue Reading “Lucid Dreams”
Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit “My Dwindling Woodpile”
This post is a “three-fer”: WeeklyPhoto Challege: Habit Studio 30+: Locked Trifextra Weekend Challenge: Buddhist cosmology tells of Trāyastriṃśa, or the Heaven of Thirty-Three gods, which rule over the human realm. This weekend we’re asking for exactly 33 of your own words about a… Continue Reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit “My Dwindling Woodpile””
Calendar Conundrum
Since I happily left corporate chaos behind eighteen months ago, my calendar, once overflowing with teleconferences, meetings, travel and ‘to-do’ deadlines, is now regularly sprinkled with doctor appointments, diagnostic procedures and preventative check-ups. It’s not that I hadn’t paid attention to my health when… Continue Reading “Calendar Conundrum”
Blight or Blessing?
I watch in sadness Helpless, impotent. Unable to shield My shade givers From incessant infestation. None spared; Branch by branch, Tree by tree, They all fall victim To infection. None spared, save one: Radiant, red apple tree Standing strong in southeast corner; Her green… Continue Reading “Blight or Blessing?”
Driftwood
🌊🌊🌊 It lay that morning in gaping ghastliness, aside the strangling seaweed, clumped on my solitary stretch of sand. A beached shark, whose sharp tooth splinters protruded forward, in a last gasp of survival. 🌊🌊🌊 Having just returned from a Disney world vacation, I browsed… Continue Reading “Driftwood”
Pirates’ Plunder
I knew that D-man would band them together – again – transforming the ragtag bunch of cousins into a well-tuned troop of plundering pirates, exuberantly mounting their quest. “Yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate’s life for me! Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me!”… Continue Reading “Pirates’ Plunder”
To Each His Own
Shower Kinetic, tactile Steaming, streaming, cleansing Soapy, slippery, bubbly, sudsy Soothing, swirling, surrounding Static, smooth Bath This week, I am responding to the Studio30 Prompt by deploying the Diamante poetic form. It’s fascinating that this form is worked from the outsides in. Try it,… Continue Reading “To Each His Own”
How Does My Garden Grow?
🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲 The tall twins had inexorably killed her chances to have a garden, and though she loved the trees’ elegant, shade-giving, bird-nesting, lushness; she so missed her garden. Over the last forty years, Her yard had become a vibrant place of verdant serenity. It… Continue Reading “How Does My Garden Grow?”
Lighthouse in the Mist, Cape May, NJ
Bandit
Festive View from the Pub, Peddler’s Village – Lahaska, PA.
Home Sweet Home
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